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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Salieri describe Mozart at the end of this scene?
(a) As a naive child.
(b) As an obscene child.
(c) As a heavenly presence.
(d) As an obscene gypsy.

2. Who picks the child Mozart up after his fall?
(a) Marie Antionette.
(b) The Emperor's mother.
(c) His mother.
(d) No-one.

3. How does Salieri find out that Mozart has arrived in Vienna?
(a) The Emperor tells him.
(b) The Venticelli tell him.
(c) His wife tells him.
(d) Count Rosenberg tells him.

4. What people are the chorus members meant to represent?
(a) Nineteenth century citizens of Verona.
(b) Eighteenth century citizens of Vienna.
(c) Salieri's cousins and nineteenth century neighbors.
(d) Nineteenth century citizens of Venezia.

5. Who invites Salieri to join the Masons?
(a) Baron Van Swieten.
(b) Leopold Mozart.
(c) Count Rosenberg.
(d) Emperor Joseph II

Short Answer Questions

1. What is holding up Wolfgang's and Constanze's marriage?

2. How does Salieri get his hands on some of Mozart's manuscripts?

3. What does Salieri do, in his pain?

4. What influences Mozart to make wildly tactless utterings at Bonno's house?

5. How is the Venticelli's speech described?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does this scene show us of Mozart's talent?

2. What is Van Swieten's attitude to Salieri at this point in the play?

3. In what way does Salieri claim to be different from his parents?

4. In what way is the 'calf-measuring scene' ironic?

5. What is important about the discussion between Von Strack, Rosenberg and Van Swieten?

6. What does his comment about his requirement in a wife reveal about Salieri's character?

7. In what way does Salieri contradict himself in the scene in which he attempts to seduce Constanze?

8. Comment on the dramatic function of the Venticelli in the opening scene.

9. Why do reports about Mozart unsettle Salieri?

10. What is striking about Salieri's description of the Adagio from the Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments (K. 361)?

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